The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDCC A EECC BBCC| I | A |
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| As drones a bee with sultry hum | B |
| When all the world with heat lies dumb | B |
| Thou dronest through the drows d lea | C |
| To lose thyself and find the sea | C |
| - | |
| As fares the soul that threads the gloom | D |
| Toward an unseen goal of doom | D |
| Thou farest forth all witlessly | C |
| To lose thyself and find the sea | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| My soul is such a stream as thou | E |
| Lapsing along it heeds not how | E |
| In one thing only unlike thee | C |
| Losing itself it finds no sea | C |
| - | |
| Albeit I know a day shall come | B |
| When its dull waters will be dumb | B |
| And then this river soul of Me | C |
| Losing itself shall find the sea | C |
William Watson
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